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Petroleum
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Petroleum

2405-6561

Published by: KeAi Publishing

http://www.keaipublishing.com/en/journals/petroleum/

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Earth Science 532 7 10 5
Engineering and Technology 828 18 27 10
Chemistry 917 9 10 6

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 47
Documents by Best Scientists*: 59
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 1
SCIMAGO H-index: 48
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.681
Impact Factor: 3.5

Overview

Top Research Topics at Petroleum?

The aim of Petroleum is to expand the discussion of research in Petroleum engineering, Permeability (earth sciences), Mechanics, Enhanced oil recovery and Chemical engineering. Saturation (chemistry), Flow (psychology) and Oil shale are some topics wherein Petroleum engineering research discussed in the journal have an impact. The study on Oil shale presented in Petroleum intersects with the topics under Drilling fluid.

Drilling fluid studies tackled cover an aspect of the field of Drilling. The study on Permeability (earth sciences) presented in it intersects with subjects under the field of Porosity. The research on Mechanics discussed in Petroleum draws on the closely related field of Porous medium.

Most of the Enhanced oil recovery studies addressed also intersect with Pulmonary surfactant. The journal addresses concerns in Chemical engineering which are intertwined with other disciplines, such as Adsorption and Polymer.

  • Petroleum engineering (29.55%)
  • Permeability (earth sciences) (11.62%)
  • Mechanics (11.36%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Most common surfactants employed in chemical enhanced oil recovery (243 citations)
  • CO2 utilization: Developments in conversion processes (226 citations)
  • Status of surfactant EOR technology (175 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Petroleum:

The most cited publications primarily tackle Petroleum engineering, Enhanced oil recovery, Artificial neural network, Pulmonary surfactant and Nanoparticle. Petroleum engineering study tackled in the most cited papers is connected to the field of Filtration. The most cited publications facilitate discussions on Enhanced oil recovery that incorporate concepts from other fields like Saturation (chemistry), Foamy oil, Relative permeability and Dissolution.

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

  • Thermodynamics
  • Organic chemistry
  • Statistics

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The objective of the journal is to combine knowledge in the areas of Petroleum engineering, Chemical engineering, Mechanics, Enhanced oil recovery and Drilling fluid. Petroleum holds forums on Petroleum engineering that merges themes from other disciplines such as Natural gas, Fossil fuel, Flow (psychology) and Volume (thermodynamics). The studies tackled, which mainly focus on Chemical engineering, apply to Adsorption as well.

Enhanced oil recovery research featured in Petroleum incorporates concerns from various other topics such as Carbonate and Petroleum industry. Topics in Drilling fluid were tackled in line with various other fields like Bentonite, Rheology, Oil shale and Filtration. Issues in Pulmonary surfactant were discussed, taking into consideration concepts from other disciplines like Contact angle and Surface tension.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • An approach to improve wellbore stability in active shale formations using nanomaterials (6 citations)
  • On the prediction of filtration volume of drilling fluids containing different types of nanoparticles by ELM and PSO-LSSVM based models (5 citations)
  • A review of in situ upgrading technology for heavy crude oil (5 citations)

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

The top authors publishing in Petroleum (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Mohammad Ali Ahmadi (9 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Raoof Gholami (8 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • Seyed Reza Shadizadeh (8 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • James J. Sheng (8 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Amir Hossein Saeedi Dehaghani (7 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Petroleum (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Southwest Petroleum University (127 papers) published 29 papers at the last edition, 16 more than at the previous edition,
  • PetroChina (38 papers) published 7 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Petroleum University of Technology (34 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 3 less than at the previous edition,
  • China National Petroleum Corporation (16 papers) published 6 papers at the last edition, 4 more than at the previous edition,
  • Amirkabir University of Technology (14 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 2 more than at the previous edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2021 edition, 3.90% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 54.05% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 9.46% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 10.81% of all publications and 25.68% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

  • Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
  • Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
  • Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
  • Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
  • Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

Top Publications

  • A review of chemical-assisted minimum miscibility pressure reduction in CO2 injection for enhanced oil recovery

    Mohamed Almobarak;Zangyuan Wu;Daiyu Zhou;Kun Fan

    (2021)
    81 Citations
  • Effects of synthesized nanoparticles and Henna-Tragacanth solutions on oil/water interfacial tension: Nanofluids stability considerations

    Pouya Tavakoli;Seyed Reza Shadizadeh;Farzan Hayati;Moslem Fattahi

    (2020)
    72 Citations
  • Effects of graphene oxide/TiO2 nanocomposite, graphene oxide nanosheets and Cedr extraction solution on IFT reduction and ultimate oil recovery from a carbonate rock

    Amin Garmroudi;Mahdi Kheirollahi;Sayed Amirhosein Mousavi;Moslem Fattahi

    (2020)
    61 Citations
  • Reversible and irreversible adsorption of bare and hybrid silica nanoparticles onto carbonate surface at reservoir condition

    Zain-UL-Abedin Arain;Sarmad Al-Anssari;Sarmad Al-Anssari;Sarmad Al-Anssari;Muhammad Ali;Muhammad Ali;Shoaib Memon

    (2020)
    57 Citations
  • Surfactant flooding: The influence of the physical properties on the recovery efficiency

    Pablo Druetta;Francesco Picchioni

    (2020)
    38 Citations
  • An approach to improve wellbore stability in active shale formations using nanomaterials

    Raoof Gholami;Arshad Raza;Minou Rabiei;Nikoo Fakhari

    (2021)
    30 Citations
  • Comparative study of well soaking timing (pre vs. post flowback) for water blockage removal from matrix-fracture interface

    Nur Wijaya;James J. Sheng

    (2020)
    29 Citations
  • Evaluation on the anisotropic brittleness index of shale rock using geophysical logging

    (2022)
    25 Citations
  • Minimizing the filtration loss of water-based drilling fluid with sustainable basil seed powder

    Hanyi Zhong;Xin Gao;Xianbin Zhang;Anliang Chen

    (2021)
    24 Citations

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